Legal and Regulatory Compliance

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Today’s healthcare organizations face evolving compliance risks that require multidimensional compliance programs focused on promoting greater coordination among all an organization’s functional areas.

By being proactive and developing the capacity to change, your revenue cycle department can acquire the dynamism to respond as the Medicaid landscape shifts.

Healthcare providers increasingly are being audited for unclaimed property.

One health system found in its Medicare enrollment system that addresses were missing for new facilities. Another found addresses still listed for a demolished facility.

Despite recommendations for practices to add support personnel to coordinate the care of their frail elderly patients, few small, independent practices employ such staff, new research found.

Hospitals supported many of the transparency goals of two proposed healthcare IT rules, but two areas drew sharp concerns.

Stay ahead of healthcare news and developments with this listing of hearings, conferences, webinars, public forums and deadlines for the week of June 2.

The potential costs of being found noncompliant with HIPAA are too great for a healthcare provider organization not to have in place a compliance program designed to help safeguard patients’ protected health information.

Physician real estate agreements are an important focus of a compliance strategy.